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  • Did you know you could tessellate a car?

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    I thought that this VW Bug was really cool when I found it on Facebook. Then I realized it was a tessellation! If you don’t know what a Tessellation is you should come to one of our upcoming Math Circles! Jeannette designed a really cool activity about tessellations.

  • Deltoidal Hexecontahedron

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    Japheth mentioned a few weeks ago MoMath’s “Math Monday” series. I was looking for activities to do this semester with our Circles, and I found this activity. There are many decks in my house that haven’t been used in years, so I decided to try one for myself. This is my attempt a deltoidal hexecontahedron. (deltoid = kite,…

  • MoMath Activities

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    For those of you who are just waiting for the Museum of Mathematics to open in Manhattan: The wonderful MoMath Activities are now available on their website. You’ve enjoyed building the Hyperbolic Parabola Model and the Hexatetra Flexagon at the Bard Math Circle. Now download and try them all! The Math Midway is at New Jersey’s Liberty Science Center through January 22, 2012. MoMath…

  • Math Circle Poster and Activity Session

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    The Bard Math Circle is traveling to Boston next week for the Math Circle Poster and Activity Session at the Joint Math Meeting 2012. This poster session brings together math circles from around the country to share some of their math circle activities. Our activity Six Choose Three was used in our Spring 2011 circles, and features several…

  • The Reel Math Challenge

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    One of the Bard Math Circle parents sent us this link: The Reel Math Challenge, which is a contest sponsored by MATHCOUNTS. For those who don’t know, MATHCOUNTS is a national, middle school level math competition that promotes excellence in math education through problem-solving. More on that later. The Reel Math Challenge is a team…

  • Bit-Strings at Bailey Middle School

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    The Bard Math Circle traveled to Bailey Middle School on Kingston this past Friday; students worked on challenge problems based on a set done in Rhinebeck last April. For one of the problams, students were asked to find how many bit-strings of length n (n-bit strings) there are, given that a single bit is either…

  • Math Mama Rocks

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    Here’s a great youtube video of a math circle in Richmond, CA, run by Sue VanHattum, called the Math Salon. Sue has set up her event in many ways similar to what we have done at the Bard Math Circle – a great selection of mathematical activities with enough structure to support curious children and…

  • May Problem and Solution!!!

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    Hey Guys! In May of 2011 the Bard Math Circle visited the Kingston Library and challenged the enthusiastic students to solve a series of combination/permutation problems. Although tough, the problems proved to be quite the adventure for the talented youth. One of the problems asked to find the different ways that four friends could split…

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    Yesterday my children and I attended the Math Circle at Kingston Library.  On the way home I asked them each what their favorite part of the Math Circle was.  Jordan said ” When I beat Jeannette at 21 Nim!” followed by her trademark giggle.   Michael enjoyed the time the Xingye spent with him explaining square…

  • Math Circle at Exploration School

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    Exploration School is a summer enrichment program housed at the campuses of St. Mark’s School (Junior– grades 4-7), Wellesley College (Intermediate– grades 8-9), and Yale University (Senior– grades 10-12). This summer I had the opportunity to work as an instructor at the Intermediate Program. My ingredients were students with a love of learning, a room…

Japheth Wood

I’m Japheth Wood (he/him), the Bard Math CAMP co-director, and a math professor at Bard College. CAMP (which is an acronym for Creative and Analytical Math Program) is a very special week of the year for our young math community. It's inspiring to see our students return year after year. This is our 11th summer of CAMP! We're back once again on the idyllic Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, and thankful to the CAMP students, parents, and staff, for making this mathemagical week happen. Notably, we've (finally) had our first CAMP reunion this past June, an event that I know will grow to be an integral part of what we do.

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Frances Stern

My name is Frances Stern (she/her/hers)! I’ve been teaching math at CAMP since the first year, making sure our math theme has a connection to art and computer. It’s fun to show students math that they don’t see in school. I've retired from daily teaching but continue to teach for the New York Math Circle & students who are seeking more math in their lives. My hobbies include learning to draw, paint, & juggle, reading, walking & folk dancing. I’ve written 2 books for teachers and parents called “Adding Math, Subtracting Tension” (for different age-ranges of children). They pay as much attention to how to keep out of a fight (what many parents told me is a problem) as they do to math.

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